Sentences with phrase «for big earthquakes»

The discovery helps solve a puzzle about plate tectonics and Earth's deep water cycle beneath the Pacific Ring of Fire, which scientists began studying in the 1960s to understand the region's propensity for big earthquakes and explosive volcanoes.

Businesses can also take some tips from homeowners in preparing for a big earthquake — bolting shelves to walls, for example.

Not exact matches

The photo gallery above is a reminder of both the might of Mother Nature and the potential danger of nuclear power, as well as a warning for what could happen the next time a big earthquake hits.

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More importantly, it's a reminder that, for the timeless Christian, the biggest revolution is the Incarnation — and in the Kingdom of Christ, the only «earthquake» of consequence is the one coming on Judgment Day.

plus living in CA people have me freaked out that any day now a huge earthquake can happen since we're due for a big one and the thought of her in another room if that happened scares the hell out of me.

The release of last week's 38 - page Electoral Commission report produced a minor political earthquake: as a result of the biggest investigation the commission has ever undertaken, it levied its largest - ever fine against the Conservative party and referred the case of the party's treasurer, Simon Day, to the Metropolitan police for further criminal investigation.

«Our biggest concern today is the continued potential for earthquakes that can also result in tsunamis,» says Enkelmann.

Instead, they reflect a propensity for natural temporal variations in uplift rates where recent (not more than 10,000 years ago) uplift has been greatest due to temporal clustering of large - magnitude (bigger than M7) earthquakes on upper - plate faults.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast of the Pacific Northwest has all the ingredients for making powerful earthquakes — and according to the geological record, the region is due for its next «big one.»

Subduction zones are noted for producing some of the biggest earthquakes — the 2004 Indian Ocean quake also arose from a subduction zone.

When you have a big earthquake, sound waves go through the inside of the Earth, and you can detect those at the surface and notice how long it took for them to get there.

John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Washington, says the find won't be a silver bullet for predicting earthquakes, but it may help scientists like him understand the big picture more accurately.

For example, during clusters on the San Andreas, big earthquakes happened only about 50 years apart, while the clusters are separated by several hundred years.

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However, this does not include the biggest cost of all — rebuilding over half of our dangerous 50 year old schools to prepare for the next major earthquake.

Sadly, it was destroyed by the big earthquake of 1963 and has since been used for recreational activities.

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Seismologists have been trying, and failing, for many years to determine whether an earthquake, or pattern of quakes, on a dangerous fault is presaging a bigger temblor or is simply a random jolt.

I encourage you to look at the map we created for the Science Times story showing numbers of school - age children in places with big earthquake threats.

If I was a questioner, I'd ask them about potentialities of the future earthquakes under Greenland and West Antarctic ice, about small so far earthquakes for first time on record in west Greenland last summer (UK Guardian early September), magma close to surface northeast Greenland (MSNBC early December), magma close to surface by Pine Island Glacier W. Antarctic (NYT January), rain at North Pole last summer and morels on Greenland big enough to fly a helicopter into (UK Independent, both articles early October)

Just a few month Myanmer Cyclon and Shichun Earthquake made so big damage for poors.

Just a week ago, about 50 earthquake and social scientists from around the world came to Kathmandu, Nepal, to figure out how to get this poor, congested, overdeveloped, shoddily built area to prepare better for the big one, a repeat of the 1934 temblor that leveled this city.

As was explored here following the enormous toll in student (and teacher) deaths from the earthquake in China's Sichuan province, this doesn't take high technology or big budgets — simply adherence to well established norms for designing buildings to sway instead of crumble or pancake.

For several years now I've been trying to understand ways to reduce vulnerabilities to earthquakes in big cities in developing countries, including Istanbul.

He is part of a Greek chorus of seismologists and earthquake engineers who have been warning for a long time that some of the world's biggest, fastest - growing cities are «rubble in waiting,» given the haphazard rush of construction of apartments and workplaces for mainly poor new residents.

11:09 p.m. Updated below You may be aware of the effort under way in Italy to convict six scientists and a public official for manslaughter for statements they made about the improbability of a big earthquake as low - level tremors unnerved citizens in the Abruzzo region of central Italy in late March 2009.

One big difference is that the menu of methods for avoiding the worst outcomes from an inevitable earthquake has been clear for decades.

30 years after Shell and ExxonMobil opened up Europe's biggest gas field for drilling, the residents of Groningen are finding out — regular earthquakes are destroying people's homes, leaving them too dangerous to live in and too expensive to fix.

«Imagine if our building codes were all designed for an average earthquake — that wouldn't work very well when we get a really big one,» she said.

Is your house ready for the next big earthquake?

You may hesitate at the first few earthquake insurance quotes you see, but because your home is probably your biggest investment, extra liability coverage for protection from natural disasters is necessary.

Your state's Department of Insurance website can also be a resource for finding licensed earthquake insurers, both big and small.

Since some mobile home insurance companies include coverage for perils such as earthquakes and floods, small differences in deductibles could be big savings down the road.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28, 2010 - The Trusted Choice ® Disaster Relief Fund created a matching fund for Big «I» employees who want to donate to money dedicated exclusively to providing assistance to the victims of the Haiti earthquake.